TOLKIEN -- official website of the Estate of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

March 24, 2022 8:52 AM

And here, my Precious, is the Site Map of TOLKIEN -- the official website of the Estate of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. It is a museum, library and near universe of almost all things Tolkien

For example: his Letter to the poet W. H. Auden 7 June 1955

or...

his Painting, to name but a few...

Let other horrible workers etc. etc...
posted by y2karl (14 comments total)

One site to bring them all, and in the linking bind them
posted by nubs at 8:55 AM on March 24, 2022 [9 favorites]

I can't be the only one who clicked through hoping to see a map of Middle Earth with all of the place names replaced with links to various resources.
posted by rory at 9:48 AM on March 24, 2022 [5 favorites]

As a matter of principle, I always refer to the man as "Jolkien Rolkien R. Tolkien."
posted by KChasm at 11:13 AM on March 24, 2022 [10 favorites]

note that TOLKIEN is a trademark and you cannot make any jokes about it
posted by dismas at 11:24 AM on March 24, 2022 [3 favorites]

Just for that the "R" stands for "Rolkientolkien."
posted by KChasm at 11:25 AM on March 24, 2022 [5 favorites]

Gorgeous calligraphy oof
posted by BlunderingArtist at 11:41 AM on March 24, 2022

How has Reuel not become a popular name amongst non-hebrew speakers? It's beautiful!
posted by Thella at 1:13 PM on March 24, 2022

Truly, as a name it reuels!
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:33 PM on March 24, 2022 [4 favorites]

The main thing people seem to have been talking about wrt/ the Tolkien Estate website is its updated fanwork policy, which people are worried is going to be bad for stuff like At the Edge of Lasg’len.
posted by one for the books at 4:14 PM on March 24, 2022 [1 favorite]

I thought his name was Token.
posted by bendy at 5:07 PM on March 24, 2022 [2 favorites]

Up until a couple of years ago, I used to cycle past the graveyard where he's buried on my daily commute, and it's almost a better "museum" of Tolkien than any exhibition (and I've seen a few!) ever could be. Visit his grave at any given time and you'll find it covered in all kinds of tributes to the man left by pilgrims to it: well-wishes, letters, poems (many written in Elvish), oh-so-many rings, flowers, etc.

I suspect the caretaker of the graveyard does more routine curation of Tolkien's estate as a result of their weekly cleaning and maintenance of the site than his academic archivists (many of whom are my former colleagues at the Bodleian!) do!
posted by avapoet at 2:25 AM on March 25, 2022 [5 favorites]

In Seattle, Bruce and Brandon Lee are buried in the Lakeview Cemetery just north of Volunteer Park. Their graves, albeit on a much smaller scale, are similarly decorated with grave gifts.
posted by y2karl at 7:01 AM on March 25, 2022 [1 favorite]

The final letter to Christopher about his wife Edith is beautiful.
posted by domdib at 11:31 PM on March 25, 2022 [1 favorite]

How has Reuel not become a popular name amongst non-hebrew speakers? It's beautiful!

One name to Reuel them all.


And here, my Precious, is the Site Map of TOLKIEN

This seems like a missed opportunity for a webring.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 7:34 PM on March 28, 2022